DEAR GABACHO READERS: You don't need a Spanish-English dictionary or your pocho co-worker to figure out what the question above refers to: the continued anti-Mexican, anti-rationality insanity that is Arizona. We've covered its pendejos throughout the years, especially Horne and Huppenthal, who earlier this year declared the Mexican-American Studies program at the Tucson Unified School District illegal because it doesn't hew to the traditional view in American history that teaches Mexicans are shiftless, lazy rapists. Part of their blitzkrieg was to ban from Tucson schools books ranging from Shakespeare's The Tempest to Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Diaz's Drown to works by authors including Sandra Cisneros, Sherman Alexie and even Howard Zinn. They're banning American history in Tucson! In other news, Satan called: The Prince of Darkness wants his disciples to join him back in Hell.

BUY BANNED BOOKS! On that note, let me turn the columna over to two worthy projects designed to counter the Tucson Unified School District's pendejadas. The first plug goes to the SouthWest Organizing Project, the fine cabrones y cabronas from Albuquerque behind 500 Years of Chicano History, one of the books targeted by the Arizona Know Nothings for daring to show that Mexican history in the Southwest wasn't all about sleeping peons under cactuses or Spanish missions. They're selling the book at a 50 percent discount to all Arizonans and will give the book away for FREE to any Arizonan student who writes a letter "describing why they think the teaching of Chicano and Native American history accurately to young people is essential," according to their website. More info is available at chicanohistory.org.

The other great effort is by my Houston amigos over at Nuestra Palabra. One of them, Tony Diaz, has assumed a new persona: El Librotraficante, who's currently setting up underground libraries in Houston, San Antonio, Albuquerque and Tucson that'll host the banned books and other tomes by writers of color and their down gabacho compatriots. They want to collect a complete set of banned libros for each underground library and donate extra copies to public libraries once each community is safely set with a collection the pendejos can't access. People who want to help—and chingón writers who want to donate a set of their work—can learn more at librotraficante.com.

PREORDER TACO USA! The Mexican will donate muchos copies of his two previous books to the Librotraficante's efforts—how's that for a segue into my obligatory plug for the latest one? Gentle cabrones: My much-promised Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America will finally hit bookstores April 10, but that doesn't mean you can't already order it (yes, grammar snobs: I just used a double-negative, but Mexican Spanish loves double-negatives the way we do cute second cousins). Place your order with your favorite local bookstore, your finer online retailers, your craftier piratas, but place it: My libro editor has already promised to deport me from the publishing industry if we don't sell enough copies! Stay tuned for book-signing info!

Gustavo Arellano is the editor of OC Weekly, author of the syndicated column "¡Ask a Mexican!", and Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America. He started at the paper with an angry, fake letter to the editor and went from there—only in Anacrime!